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...knowledge of the systematic slaughter of five million Jews under Hitler? The title of the First Quarto of 1600 and the Second Quarto of 1619 runs, in part: "The most excellent Histories of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylock the Iewe towards the sayd Merchant. . . ." The fact is that Shakespeare, and Elizabethan Londoners generally, could have had little if any first-hand knowledge of Jews, since Jews had been banished from England at the end of the thirteenth century and were not readmitted until the middle of the seventeenth...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Carnovsky Great in 'Merchant of Venice' | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...Richard finding himselfe in this distresse, commaunded the Master gunner to split and sinke the shippe. But the Captaine and the Master yeelded that all their lives should be saved, and Sir Richard was sent unto to remoove, the shippe being marveilous unsavorie. Sir Richard died as it is sayd, the second or third day. What became of his body we know not. His owne honour he hath not outlived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Elizabethan Epic | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

Gentmun, suh, draw yo'selves up a chair and have a mint julep. You all is gonna need a stiff reenforcement to carry you all through this yere picture. Suh, what them yankees out tha in Hollywood has sayd abaht Vuhginny is a dahrect insult to us who would be willin to give oauh blood for deah ole Vuhginny. Wha, they done even had a yankee ridin a pure bred hoss--who ever saw a yankee who could ride a hoss like some of oauh southen gentmuns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/15/1941 | See Source »

...Untyl I sayd, "D'ye like your bread...

Author: By J. C. Furnas ., | Title: FURTHER NONSENSE, VERSE AND PROSE. By Lewis Carroll. D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1927. $2.00. | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...Wille sayd: "By Johan I am no fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROCTOURES TALE OF GAMBLYN. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

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